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Originally posted by scot818:

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Originally posted by Vgex:
To be fair, I'm passing on the new Ant Man, as well.

I still haven't seen the first Antman, guardians 1 & 2, the last couple of Spider-Man movies, and maybe a couple more. I like the Captain America and iron man movies best. But I've been disappointed more than once because they way over the top with cgi. Use more of the budget on writing and less on special effects.

Ant Man is a good watch at home on disc. Guardians 1 is excellent, the second one I thought was shit. This last Spider-Man reboot was also terrible except for the Love interest in it. She is a beauty, 27 years old, playing 16 or 17 y o.

I really don't have a problem with the 'affluent/successful African country' thing. It's not really THAT much of a stretch. This movie takes place in an alternate timeline (their WWII had Red Skull, for example), so things are bound to be different.

It would just take a strategic mineral/metal reserve (thinking something similar to the diamonds in modern-day South Africa) and a government led by benevolent and selfless leaders (that last one is the biggest stretch, considering the state of our Africa, I know)...

I look forward to seeing it. Looks interesting.

Look, it's another movie from a comic book. How much realism do you expect?

Any media that isn't a documentary with its sources cited and verified is just entertainment right?

This is one more ice cream sunday for your eyes and brain. Nothing wrong with that once in a while.

Me, I'll wait for the Directv rental. Only because I hate buying movie tickets and theater popcorn now that I've become my dad.

holy crap. Some touchy people here. My thought process on making that comment was based on an interview I watched a few years back on Marvel comics that stan lee did. He specifically talked about why he and Marvel brought on BP and the revisionist history of his African home. It was don primarily to bring in young Black male readers. Nothing wrong with that. My issue stems from the way, and the revisionist history was used to foment some racial issues at the time. I watched his appearance in the last Avengers, and in the most recent trailer and it struck me as more of the same Revisionist SJW crap.

I will skip this,

I'd like to know how female comic superheroes manage to keep their figures from busting (pun intended) out of their catsuits. Is that a superpower?

Anybody see it yet? Better not say anything negative lest ye be labeled a racist.

I'll wait for redbox or Netflix but will definitely watch it. The theater is expensive and you never know what the crowd will be like and I know the popcorn is good at my house.

Just back from seeing it. Being a fictitious superhero movie, I don’t feel the need to question why a country in Africa is able to do all this....
At any rate, I really enjoyed the movie. Good action, interesting sorry, even a few laughs. I recommend it. Of course, if you’re one who tends to nit pick your fiction, you’ll absolutely find stuff to hate it over.

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I'm very interested to know how a country in Africa is the most technologically advanced in the world. Would make sense if it took an infinity stone to get them there.

It is a comic. It doesn't have to match reality. Remember, there is a flying guy in a black suit.

It could be preachy, but I think Marvel is smarter than that. They are very good at making exciting action flicks, and I bet they will stick with it.

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Originally posted by cazio:
I'll wait for redbox or Netflix but will definitely watch it. The theater is expensive and you never know what the crowd will be like and I know the popcorn is good at my house.

My local theater is $5 before noon. Being a retired guy with free mornings, well....

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My local theater is $5 before noon. Being a retired guy with free mornings, well....

I guess theaters still do this. Projectors use a lot of juice so for non-peak time showings, they'll throttle the projectors back. On movies with a lot of dark scenes, it can be a serious drawback. I used to go to a theater that had dollar showings for movies just out of main runs but before the videos were available. Those dark showings stopped me from doing that.

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Originally posted by redwood25:
My local theater is $5 before noon. Being a retired guy with free mornings, well....

I guess theaters still do this. Projectors use a lot of juice so for non-peak time showings, they'll throttle the projectors back. On movies with a lot of dark scenes, it can be a serious drawback. I used to go to a theater that had dollar showings for movies just out of main runs but before the videos were available. Those dark showings stopped me from doing that.

Yeah, we don't have this problem.

The trailers for this have not really excited me at all. Part of it was the crap music that they were blasting during the ads, the rest being that I just dont care about a second tier character enough to warrant spending the time and money to see this in the theater and nothing shown in the trailers changed that opinion. Black Panther wasn't anything special in Civil War, either. I'll check it out on video.

Gonna wait til video. Not if Luke Cage goes from Netflix to BIGscreen... IN

Like Cage was awesome. The music, the acting, the vibe. I loved it.

I saw it and I really enjoyed it. It was well done visually and I liked the acting. I think they took a lot of the lessons from previous Marvel movies and applied them. For example, they didn't go over the top on jokes. The jokes were good, well placed, but didn't turn the movie into a parody or comedy.

I saw it today. I thought it was extremely passive racism, or reverse racism I
Guess. They continually referenced how their people (black people) were and are oppressed, referring to a white guy as a colonizer. Just really crap and I generally like all marvel movies.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
...It could be preachy, but I think Marvel is smarter than that...

And you'd be a little bit wrong there. It wasn't too bad, but it was definitely there. The old "white people stole everything" trope.

Overall, I enjoyed it, even with that.

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Originally posted by g8rforester:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
...It could be preachy, but I think Marvel is smarter than that...

And you'd be a little bit wrong there. It wasn't too bad, but it was definitely there. The old "white people stole everything" trope.

Overall, I enjoyed it, even with that.

Too bad.

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Originally posted by egregore:
I'd like to know how female comic superheroes manage to keep their figures from busting (pun intended) out of their catsuits.

I'd pay to see that!